Does Fedora Community have a novice listserve ?
by David
I have tried hanging out on the test-listserve, and here on the
user-listserve,
but neither suit my needs.
Although, I enjoy tinkering and living in Rawhide, I am a computer
novice, and do not code, or muck around with complex issues discussed
on the user forum.
On a different note, I have chosen not yet to reinstall Rawhide, for now,
because I can still login as superuser and update my install. The only
thing that
I seem to have broken was the sudo privilege.
I am unemployed now, and probably for a long time. If I had some money,
to pay the bills and not worry, I could spend some leisure time learning
about
things like nano, and kate, and more Linux commands, and bash, and gcc
and clang, and rust and qt and perl and python, etc. But I just do not
sense
that my brain or IQ has the capacity to learn such things. I must go
find a job,
but how when so much is closed and lines of people are applying for
temporary
jobs at places that are still open for inside-business ??
For what it is worth ( at least to me ), I have been living in Rawhide as
my only
operating system since June of 2018, although I have reinstalled it several
times
and did probably tinker around briefly with some other distros, that I have
laying
around on some spare SSDs.
Today's update brought in a new point-release to thunar. Whoopee !!
and
some other various things, like plymouth, which I guess I use nearly every
day,
since I reboot several times per day. I am typing this message after
the update,
using ethernet connection.
David Locklear
P.S. I am now in Montgomery County, Texas, USA, and today the gov't
warned
looters, and miscreants that their punishment would be twice as long as
they think
it will be. Police are strictly enforcing laws and confiscating driver's
automobiles who
are out stirring up trouble. I need a bumper-sticker on my car that
says, transporting
Linux equipment, or something essential. LOL !
4 years, 2 months
Re: laptop thoughts/suggestions
by J.Witvliet@mindef.nl
You might consider a second (much larger) display.
Your graphic card should be able to support them.
From: "Richard Shaw" <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com<mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com>>
Date: Thursday, 26 March 2020 at 21:15:22
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org<mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>>
Subject: Re: laptop thoughts/suggestions
Is the 17" negotiable? Looking at Amazon, a Ryzen 5 3500U would be a good option but the 17" raises the price by ~$200.
Thanks,
Richard
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4 years, 2 months
laptop thoughts/suggestions
by bruce
Hi.
thinking of a new laptop
base specs
at least 4 core
at least 8-12G with ability to expand to 16/32
1TB
and SSD would be ok
bluetooth
17"
usb/hdmi of course
i'd prefer new, as opposed to used
and of course as cheap as possible
thoughts/comments
4 years, 2 months
linux -- ide question
by bruce
hey,
for those who do linux dev/work, what's your goto IDE/editor?
just curious.
4 years, 2 months
HandleLidSwitch issue.
by Erik P. Olsen
According to man logind.conf HandleLidSwitch=suspend is default. This does not happen
when I close the lid of my Lenovo T580. Directly setting HandleLidSwitch=suspend has no
effect either.
Am I missing something or is it a bug?
--
Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark
Fedora 31/64 bit Linux xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.2 Bacula 9.4.4
4 years, 2 months
LVM, list home -
by Bob Goodwin
I have copy of Fedora 29 on another drive in this computer and I would
like to access the home partition on it from this Fedora 31 system. I
can mount the drive /dev/sda2 and do lvscan, one of the few lv commands
I have in my noes from 2011. I usually select standard partitions when
installing to avoid this sort on confusion, I don't know why I have this
one lvm system but it is there and it still boots if I want it, however
it would be convenient to be able to see the file directly without
shutting down and booting the other system from the boot menu.
I have mounted /dev/sda2 at /media/test and done lvscan and found that I
can do:
[root@Workstation-1 bobg]# ls -al /dev/fedora_localhost-live/home
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Mar 26 05:16 /dev/fedora_localhost-live/home
-> ../dm-1
but I don't know how to list "home" on the lvm, is it possible and how?
Bob
--
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia,
Fedora Linux-31 XFCE
4 years, 2 months
Internet tip
by David
A popular risque website is offering free membership to their so-called
Premium service under the premises that they are serving the needs of the
community during this worldwide economic crisis.
Do not click on this.
It is a scam.
It will not give you anything until you give them credit-card info and all
your personnel info.
Nothing new is being offered. It is all a lie, to get your money.
4 years, 2 months
New Laptop - Graphics Card choices - suggestions?
by S.Bob
All;
I've found that my current laptop in no way supports a 3rd monitor. So I
am going to upgrade to a Lenovo P73 Mobile Workstation,
the graphic card options are:
NVIDIA® Quadro® P620 4GB
NVIDIA® Quadro® T2000 4GB
NVIDIA® Quadro® RTX3000 6GB
Do these cards work well with Linux / Fedora?
Any reason I would want anything beyond the P620? I do mostly text based
work via ssh but I also do a fair bit of photography image post
processing with tools like gimp, rawtherapee and darktable
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance
--
`When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".' (By Linus Torvalds)
4 years, 2 months
ssh question
by bruce
Hey.
My apologies. I now I've asked this/solved this before. can't findwhere I
placed the soln.
I have a remote VM. I've created a private/public ssh key for user 'bob'
The public key is in the required location on the remote VM.
On my normal local box,, logged in as user 'bob' I have the private key. I
can login as user bob -
ssh bob@remoteServer1
this works, no prob.
My question
If I'm on user "linda"s machine, logged in as linda, what do I need to do
to be able to ssh into the remote server as user 'bob'??
Do I place the private key of user 'bob' in the required ssh file within
user linda's ssh dir?
Which implies that I then need to remove the private key once I leave if I
don't want linda accessing the remote box later on..
thanks
4 years, 2 months
nvidia and zoom problem?
by George Avrunin
Like many universities, we are converting to working from home and
doing only online instruction as of Monday. (This week is spring break and
faculty get to use it to figure out how to make the online instruction
work.) The campus has a Zoom license and we are urged to use that for
class sessions. I've run into a problem and tried the fix suggested by
Zoom support, but it's not working and I'm hoping someone here can help me.
Trying to interact with Zoom support gets a "we're too busy right now"
message....
The problem is sharing a window/screen (desktop). I can share from my
Fedora desktop, but when I stop the sharing Zoom crashes (or, in some
configurations--see below--sharing a window/screen just blacks out the
window/screen being shared). Zoom support indicates that this is mostly a
problem with something automatically switching from the nvidia card to a
built-in card and suggests running
xcompmgr -c -l0 -t0 -r0 -o.00
With the nvidia driver, this seems to have little or no effect. It does
seem to work with nouveau, but I'm getting an annoying flashing of (at
least some windows on) the screen with nouveau (and I'm losing some
performance that I'd like to keep for other purposes).
Here are the details:
My home machine is running Fedora 31, fully updated, on a Dell Precision
T1700 with 32 GB of memory. I have an nvidia card and run the nvidia
driver from negativo-17 (for performance with darktable...). I use KDE,
and Settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor is not set to enable the
compositor on startup. The backend Renderer is set to OpenGL 3.1, but
I've had the same problem with OpenGL 2.0 (though it did seem to work once
with 2.0; nothing like intermittent buggy behavior...). I did try logging
in with Gnome and still had the problem of stopping Zoom screen sharing
causing Zoom to crash. When I run the xcompmgr command before starting
Zoom, I'm getting the following kind of message in the konsole I ran it
from when Zoom crashes:
error 138: BadRegion request 137 minor 14 serial 63627
error 138: BadRegion request 137 minor 14 serial 63635
The "BIOS Setup" at startup does have a video option. It has 3 choices
for "Primary Display": AUTO, INTEL HD Graphics, and NVIDIA HD Graphics, and
it says that when "Auto" is not selected, the onboard graphics device will
be present and enabled. I tried resetting this from Auto to Intel, and got
very slightly different behavior (sharing a konsole window blacked out the
window on my desktop and the meeting participants screens, and quitting
sharing crashed Zoom on the desktop). So I put it back to Auto.
I then tried disabling the nvidia driver. I blacklisted it (and the
associated modules in a file in /etc/modprobe.d) and changed the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file to list "nouveau" as the driver for Device 0.
(When I rebooted, lsmod doesn't show any nvidia stuff, and does have
nouveau, so I think this worked). With that, I'm getting some annoying
screen flashing (notably in claws-mail) and sharing a window blacks out the
window , but then running the xcompmgr command unblacks it and stopping
sharing doesn't seem to kill Zoom.
Between the screen flashing with nouveau and wanting the performance of
the nvidia driver for other things, I'd like to make this work with the
nvidia driver.
The output of lspci is
[~] 7) lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3 Processor DRAM
Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core
Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset
Family USB xHCI (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series
Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-LM
(rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset
Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family
PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family
PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev d4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family
PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev d4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series ChipsetW
Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C226 Series Chipset Family Server
Advanced SKU LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode]
(rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus
Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX
1050 Ti] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio
Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2001 PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge
I also have a Dell XPS 13 laptop running Fedora 31, also running KDE. It
doesn't have this problem (but I hope not to have to use it for online
teaching; the screen is too small and it's one of the ones with the webcam
at the bottom of the screen, so if you can reach the keyboard to type, the
camera is looking up your nose).
Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.
George
4 years, 2 months